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Straw and Blue Jays slugger Davis Schneider watched the Mariners and Tigers’ 15-inning Division Series finale at a bar together Friday night.
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Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
The slugger has hit 187 home runs in four years with the Phillies, including a career-high 56 this past season.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 4 Oct. 2025
Hallmark has discontinued its Joyous F-bomb Collection, so the fiery slugger may want to go the handmade route.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Seitzer finished second to A’s slugger Mark McGwire in the 1987 A.L. Rookie of the Year vote.
—Laurence Miedema, Mercury News, 2 Oct. 2025
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Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
The slugger has hit 187 home runs in four years with the Phillies, including a career-high 56 this past season.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 4 Oct. 2025
Hallmark has discontinued its Joyous F-bomb Collection, so the fiery slugger may want to go the handmade route.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Seitzer finished second to A’s slugger Mark McGwire in the 1987 A.L. Rookie of the Year vote.
—Laurence Miedema, Mercury News, 2 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slugger
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Butler’s style resembled that of patient boxer Floyd Mayweather far more than lightning-quick Formula 1 driver Yuki Tsunoda, both of whom were courtside.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
23 Oct. 2025
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Kim's dog Rocky When Kim was dating football player Reggie Bush, the two got a boxer dog named Rocky in 2010.—
Sydni Ellis,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
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Why Exit Planning Can’t Wait Returning to our boxing metaphor, a big plot point of Rocky IV centers on the pugilist’s unease with complacency.—
Michael Ashley,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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She is next slated to appear in the boxing drama Christy, based on the life of real professional pugilist Christy Martin.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
14 Aug. 2025
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Daniel Kinahan, a keen amateur boxer, has always been in thrall to prizefighters.—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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Most people participating in American warrior culture are not prizefighters, of course, and relatively few are veterans.—
Dan Brooks,
The Atlantic,
2 Oct. 2025
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Don’t be a palooka, start Nacua.—
Bill Reinhard,
New York Daily News,
12 Dec. 2024
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One year after the Academy bafflingly ignored his work in Sideways, Giamatti finally scored his first Oscar nomination for his purely entertaining performance as boxing manager Joe Gould in Ron Howard’s proudly old-fashioned Depression-era palooka drama.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
10 Mar. 2024
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Kardashian then paired the look with strappy, gladiator stiletto heels for her evening out in the city.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
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That is gladiators without swords.—
Bryan West,
USA Today,
28 Oct. 2025
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Mason, 39, talks with PEOPLE exclusively about all the planning that went into throwing their pug the perfect party.—
Meredith Wilshere,
PEOPLE,
19 Oct. 2025
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Despite his high drive, Whiskie also embraces his pug side.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Slugger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slugger. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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